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New catalyst for safe, reversible hydrogen storage(physorg.com)
1 points by shubber 15y ago|0 comments
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by shubber 15y ago
There are certainly ways, though, in which the Rails community (and its leaders) have enshrined childish behavior. The sad part is that it's about 50/50 - some of the core team are gigantic jerks with inflated egos. Some of them are love
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by shubber 15y ago
One more reason to switch to Universal Zebra Time!
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DST leads to cyberloafing(physorg.com)
1 points by shubber 15y ago|1 comments
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Has the Facebook Friend Bubble Burst?(blogs.smartmoney.com)
1 points by shubber 15y ago|0 comments
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MailCatcher(mailcatcher.me)
1 points by shubber 15y ago|0 comments
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by shubber 15y ago
Maybe they're built on Rails?
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by shubber 15y ago
"...what is the solution to this puzzle?" Surely the answer is "I have deduced that I do not want to work here. Good day."
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by shubber 15y ago
Wow: 69 whole picowatts of light if the ambient temperature is about 200F. And fundamentals of the physics mean that neither of those figures is likely to change. If the claim were more spectacular, we'd call this snake oil.
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by shubber 15y ago
"The alternative would be to make Rails secure by default, but that would mean pretty much nothing would work until you explicitly granted access where necessary." Given the amount of logging that occurs if you do set whitelist_attributes,
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Clouds push Linux server sales in Q4(go.theregister.com)
1 points by shubber 15y ago|0 comments
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by shubber 15y ago
A practical outcome of the bound (that the PageRank change for a new link is bounded by the PageRank of the source of the link) was the WordPress link selling affair from a few years ago. Every WP blog had a link at the bottom: "Proudly
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by shubber 15y ago
That's something I couldn't find when I was following up on the whole thing. Could you point me to that?
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Thoughts on the Github Hack(blog.lrdesign.com)
1 points by shubber 15y ago|2 comments
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by shubber 15y ago
I've always found that post a nice tutorial on how to build gems. Just to plug a little bit, I've been working on a set of Rake Tasklibs to manage building and releasing gems called corundum that I'd be glad of feedback on.
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by shubber 15y ago
We've recently started do a lot more acceptance testing in browser, writing unit/integration tests in response to bugs. The acceptance tests are slower, for sure, but the do cut "deploy and wait for bug reports" out of the dev cycle a lot
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by shubber 15y ago
Wrong: first item should be environments as first class types. Much of the rest follows. And you can stick it to smarmy common lisp geeks.
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Simplecov formatter to markup vim buffers(github.com)
1 points by shubber 15y ago|0 comments
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by shubber 15y ago
As a side note (for all of you who've typed :wq in the code entry field), you can 'gem install rubywarrior' and play Ryan Bates's original locally. A little snappier, too.
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by shubber 15y ago
On the other hand, the Ruby equivalent is def in_context(*args) setup_context yield if block_given? ensure teardown_context end I guess you could build a special class, but why?
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by shubber 15y ago
This idea is incredibly seductive to me, but the trouble I've always had is made completely lucid in your description of "conjugates" that are "only partially left inverse." The issue is that so many operations that it would be nice to be
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by shubber 15y ago
Yes it is. IIRC, extra points for shooting the parachute, then shooting the guy who was otherwise falling to his death. Simple and classic.
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by shubber 15y ago
Mostly, I just want to say amongst people I respect: Once the Dart VM is living in a browser, I will look at learning it. Until then, it has all the downsides of node.js + Coffeescript without the upside of an existing community. Put actua
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Technical Overview : Dart : Structured web programming(dartlang.org)
1 points by shubber 15y ago|1 comments
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by shubber 15y ago
I'm reminded of Mechanism Design: a Nobel prize winning theory of economics that starts with the supposition that agents in any system will exploit its rules to maximize their personal gain. The corollary, which I've been quite taken by, i
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by shubber 15y ago
Trying not to be pedantic, but this is something everyone should know. If I can pull a list of two-way encrypted passwords, breaking that is way faster than extracting passwords from a properly crypted list. Essentially it's a huge list of
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by shubber 15y ago
Just to be clear: there is no significant difference between either of these and simply storing in plaintext. "In a recoverable form" means that a) there's a single key with which to decrypt the passwords. If I can get the password list, t
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by shubber 15y ago
Much as I'm glad to see something along these lines, I'm a little taken aback that it took this long to publish. Even the original post refers to "last Oscon," and O'Reilly runs a lot of conferences. Last Oscon wasn't the first time "some
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by shubber 15y ago
Which isn't super useful for 3D, though... Regardless, think seriously about putting collision/physics on the front page, because I certainly use it as an evaluation criteria. Plus, I'm a little disappointed by rectangles-only collisions.
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Ask HN: Web API platform
2 points by shubber 15y ago|0 comments

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